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Sooner than e'en this anguish! Life is best Thrown from us in such moments. [Voices heard at a distance.

Hush! what strain Floats on the wind?

'Tis the Cid's battle song! What marvel hath been wrought? [Voices approaching heard in chorus.

Is it too late?—My father, these are men Through life and death prepared to follow thee Beneath this banner!—Is their zeal too late? —Oh! there 's a fearful history on thy brow! What hast thou seen?